in 2008, they have 14 days, and charlie crist actually extending early voting hours to allow more to cast ballots. the republicans changed that law in 2011 and said now you only have eight days to vote. early voting in person voting doesn't start until october 27th and goes through the final friday before the election. democrats say, hey, we want to vote on that final sunday. it's a big turnout day for african-americans, republicans say we want to have the fairest and fraud-free election so we need that break in between for the end of early voting. >> so eight days peel have to early vote in florida. what's the turnout been like in florida? >> well, it -- the turnout is going to be interesting to see, actually. in 2008, more than half of the ballots cast for the presidential election were cast before election day. so you have this really interesting thing of you have, you know, barack obama and then john mccain coming, barn storming through the state where a lot of votes were already cast. we're expecting a similar picture in 2012. obviously florida is the biggest link state in ameri